Dan McCrum: "In the Wirecard case, people were blinded by the idea of having a European tech giant."

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Dan McCrum is a multi-award winning journalist and author. He is a member of the Financial Times investigations team, and has spent 15 years writing about business from New York and London. His reporting has been recognised with more than a dozen prizes, including journalist of the year at the 2020 British Press Awards. His first book is ‘Money Men: a hot start up, a billion dollar fraud, a fight for the truth. It tells the thrilling inside story of the astonishing rise and crashing fall of the $30bn German fintech Wirecard, and has been made into the Netflix feature documentary Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard. Leoš Rousek, the Head Of Corporate Communications at PPF Group (https://www.ppf.eu/en) and contributor of PFI Talks, talked with Dan McCrum. You can find the video with Czech subtitles and the article on the E15 website: https://www.e15.cz/videoporady/pfi-talks/wirecard-nabizi-pribeh-jako-z-mission-impossible-rika-novinar-ktery-kauzu-odhalil-1397498